Over a hundred years ago, on December 14, 1923, a proposed amendment first came before the United States Congress. It read in its entirety, “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the ...

Its history has been long and complex. By Noah Weiland Reporting from Washington President Biden said on Friday that he believed the Equal Rights Amendment met the requirements of ratification as ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Speaking to the Conference of Mayors Friday, President Joe Biden said the Equal Rights Amendment should be ...

The proposed amendment is simple, but the fight to add the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution has been anything but. In his last days in office, President Biden issued an ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely ...

What is the Equal Rights Amendment? First introduced by women's rights activist Alice Paul in 1923, the ERA is a succinct declaration of equality: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be ...

President Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment had been ratified and should be considered the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, but the National Archives quickly rejected that notion.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land," on Friday, backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution even ...

By Peter Baker Erica L. Green and Annie Karni Reporting from Washington President Biden declared on Friday that he believes that the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification ...